dekyon

If you go back to the Star Trek model of a temporal loop and view it as metaphor rather than plot device, you might equate "afterimages of previous loops" with static (more or less) memory, and "the dekyon field" with active (more or less) consciousness.

Recursivity 2007

The interaction might give rise to not merely déjà vu, but to a more persistent replication of pattern or rhythm in the dekyon field! that we might call habit.

Recursivity 2007

If you go back to the Star Trek model of a temporal loop and view it as metaphor rather than plot device, you might equate "afterimages of previous loops" with static (more or less) memory, and "the dekyon field" with active (more or less) consciousness.

Recursivity 2007

The interaction might give rise to not merely déjà vu, but to a more persistent replication of pattern or rhythm in the dekyon field! that we might call habit.

Recursivity 2007

However, afterimages of previous loops can be found to have effect on the dekyon field.

Recursivity 2007

Of course, it's possible that not everyone will hold with the above reason for this recursivity - you know, the whole "effect on the dekyon field" thing.

Recursivity 2007

In the ST:TNG episode referred to above, a distortion of the dekyon field would do the trick - a message or warning deliberately consciously recorded in the past for future decoding and analysis.

Recursivity 2007

In the ST:TNG episode referred to above, a distortion of the dekyon field would do the trick - a message or warning deliberately consciously recorded in the past for future decoding and analysis.

Recursivity 2007

Of course, it's possible that not everyone will hold with the above reason for this recursivity - you know, the whole "effect on the dekyon field" thing.

Recursivity 2007

However, afterimages of previous loops can be found to have effect on the dekyon field.

Recursivity 2007